Design of Efficient Ambipolar Host Materials for Organic Blue Electrophosphorescence: Theoretical Characterization of Hosts Based on Carbazole Derivatives.

Density functional theory calculations were carried out to investigate the electronic structures of representative ambipolar hosts for blue electroluminescence, based on two carbazole end groups and meta-terphenyl (mTP)-like bridges. The bridge molecular segments include mTP, 2,6-bisphenylpyridine,...

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Published in:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 133; no. 44; pp. 17895 - 17901
Main Authors: Dongwook Kim, Coropceanu, Veaceslav, Brédas, Jean-Luc
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Published: American Chemical Society 11/9/2011
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          Dongwook Kim
          Coropceanu, Veaceslav
          Brédas, Jean-Luc
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          School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
          Department of Chemistry, Kyonggi University, San 94-6 Iui-Dong, Yeongtong-Gu, Suwon 443-760, Korea
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        Carbazole
        Organic compounds
        Electronic structure
        Density functionals
        Ionization (Atomic physics)
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          Carbazole
          Organic compounds
          Electronic structure
          Density functionals
          Ionization (Atomic physics)
      ab: Density functional theory calculations were carried out to investigate the electronic structures of representative ambipolar hosts for blue electroluminescence, based on two carbazole end groups and meta-terphenyl (mTP)-like bridges. The bridge molecular segments include mTP, 2,6-bisphenylpyridine, 3,5-bisphenylpyridine, and 2,6-bisphenylpyrimidine. While the ionization potentials and electron affinities of these molecules are mainly determined by their hole- and electron-transport subunits, respectively, each subunit impacts the electronic properties of the other upon their binding, mainly in an inductive way. Importantly, the lowest triplet state of the hosts is determined to be confined into the mTP-like bridges since these are the subunits with lowest individual triplet energy. Extension of the phenyl-based p-conjugated system via meta linkages is found to be effective in modulating the electron affinity value while maintaining a high triplet energy.
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